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  Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM 640, the Bill Handel Show
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  Speaker 1: on demand on the iHeartRadio.
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  Speaker 2: App.
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  Speaker 3: And now, Handel on the News. Ladies and gentlemen, here's
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  Speaker 3: Bill Handel.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, everybody. Foodie Friday. Yes, it is. October 24,
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  Speaker 1: and we are nine days out. Is that right? I
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  Speaker 1: keep on counting, and I'm always wrong on this for
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  Speaker 1: the midterms. And a lot is going on. It's been
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  Speaker 1: a busy week between now and a week from Tuesday
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  Speaker 1: when the general is going to be held. Well, actually,
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  Speaker 1: the midterm elections are going to be held, and it's going...
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  Speaker 1: Tell me I'm not going to be up that night, huh,
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  Speaker 1: watching the results coming in. And so let me say
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  Speaker 1: hello to everybody. There's Neil. Good morning, Neil.
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  Speaker 2: What up, dog?
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  Speaker 1: What up, dog? That's good. Mario, there you are. Good morning.
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  Speaker 1: What up, doc? Doc, that's also very good. I can
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  Speaker 1: see Ann.
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  Speaker 4: Hello, Ann.
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  Speaker 1: There you are. Okay, she's plugging in right now, saying
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  Speaker 1: good morning.
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  Speaker 4: All right. Plug.
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  Speaker 1: Plug in. Plug in. She's looking around.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: They ran out of money to put in plugs.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: Good morning.
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  Speaker 1: There you go. I don't see Amy and I don't
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  Speaker 1: see Will. Oh, Amy.
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  Speaker 5: Well, Will is not here today. So that's why you
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  Speaker 5: don't see Will.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Will is, he's not here a lot. Well,
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  Speaker 1: he's not here every day anyway in terms of the show,
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  Speaker 1: even though when he is here, he's not here.
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  Speaker 5: But That's awfully nice.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Good morning. It's, you know, first sentence right off
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  Speaker 1: the bat as we start the show. Oh, another Disney,
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  Speaker 1: another Disneyland. I know, right? You are dilly. I was
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  Speaker 1: looking at the costs because Anne and I are playing
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  Speaker 1: with a topic or two about the costs of stuff.
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  Speaker 1: And it is and we were talking about astronomical costs are.
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  Speaker 1: So yesterday, Lindsay and I or a couple of days ago,
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  Speaker 1: Lindsay and I were we drove up from Orange County
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  Speaker 1: to the valley. And there was an hour and a
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  Speaker 1: half up and two hours and 45 minutes or two
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  Speaker 1: hours and 50 minutes down. So we're in the middle
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  Speaker 1: of traffic. It was raining. It was traffic. We in
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  Speaker 1: Southern California, when it's the first drop of rain, we panic.
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  Speaker 1: And nobody knows how to drive. So we stop off
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  Speaker 1: at a Jack in the Box just to grab something.
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  Speaker 1: And she gets a kid's meal, chicken strips and fries
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  Speaker 1: with like two or three pieces of chicken. I get
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  Speaker 1: a spicy chicken sandwich with a fountain drink with fries.
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  Speaker 1: I got the combo meal. That came to $ 18 and change.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, come on. A kid's meal and one sandwich.
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  Speaker 1: 18 bucks at Jack in the Box.
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  Speaker 2: That actually sounds pretty good.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it does. It was really good. Now, at Carl's Jr.,
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  Speaker 1: that would have been $ 28. So I'm looking at the
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  Speaker 1: cost of stuff, and I was thinking of you and Neil, Ann,
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  Speaker 1: or Amy.
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  Speaker 5: Amy.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know. I know who you are. And it was–
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  Speaker 1: we conflate the two because they both start with an A,
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  Speaker 1: and I haven't figured it out yet. And so I'm
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  Speaker 1: looking at the cost of stuff. Yeah. When Disneyland opened
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  Speaker 1: in 1955, in adjustable dollars– Right. Adjusted for inflation. You
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  Speaker 1: know how much it would cost today based on the
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  Speaker 1: price that are open in Disneyland if it were open
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  Speaker 1: today for the same amount of money that are opened?
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  Speaker 1: You know how much it would be today? Twenty dollars.
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  Speaker 1: Eleven dollars. is what it would cost today. Now, comparing
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  Speaker 1: apples to apples, in those days, Disneyland, the whole thing,
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  Speaker 1: I think, cost, I think, $ 57 million. In today's dollars,
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  Speaker 1: it'd be like $ 150 or $ 180 million, where a new
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  Speaker 1: ride alone can be half a billion dollars.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, no.
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  Speaker 1: Disneyland, to build, cost $ 15 million. Yeah, but in today's dollars... One-five. Yeah, no,
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  Speaker 1: I know, but in today's dollars... It originally was planned
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  Speaker 1: for five million. Can you believe that? They went three
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  Speaker 1: times over. I know, and then he had to borrow,
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  Speaker 1: and then Walt Disney had to borrow money, mortgaged everything.
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  Speaker 2: It took them one year, almost on the day, one
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  Speaker 2: year to build Disneyland.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: We can't even get anything built in L.A.
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  Speaker 4: Anymore.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, and it's going to take you... Disney rides
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  Speaker 1: are phenomenal, so you really can't compare... apples to apples here,
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  Speaker 1: or you should, but you can't, because the rides in
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  Speaker 1: 1955 were really very rudimentary compared to the rides today.
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  Speaker 2: The funny thing is that people complain about the cost
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  Speaker 2: of food and the cost of Disneyland, yet they will
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  Speaker 2: go to a concert for three hours.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, and they complain.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, believe me, they complain. And they'll buy a $ 9 beer.
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  Speaker 1: I understand, but they still complain. They still complain. But
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  Speaker 1: people end up doing it. Look how many people go
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  Speaker 1: to Disneyland. Disneyland is as crowded as ever. It used
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  Speaker 1: to be years ago when I used to go to
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  Speaker 1: Disneyland a lot. And now I'm really limited to the
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  Speaker 1: amount of time. Matter of fact, I went to Disneyland
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  Speaker 1: with Amy connected me with some friends of hers who
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  Speaker 1: really know the park. I mean, really know the park,
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  Speaker 1: which is the way to really see it like you.
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  Speaker 1: You know where to go. You know which rides are
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  Speaker 1: the longest. I mean, to navigate the park well, you
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  Speaker 1: have to pretty well know, understand hours and lines, et cetera.
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  Speaker 1: But I was going to say something about it. Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And the Disneyland, it's as crowded as it's ever been.
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  Speaker 1: When I was younger, in my 20s, which was 100
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  Speaker 1: years ago, I would go February, March, midweek, and there
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  Speaker 1: was no line at any ride. You'd go around and, oh,
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  Speaker 1: can I just stay on? No, you have to go
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  Speaker 1: back in line. Well, back in line meant you just
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  Speaker 1: walked outside the exit. You came back into the entrance
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  Speaker 1: and you jumped on the ride.
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  Speaker 2: It was 15-minute waits this week.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I'm saying you have to know the park.
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  Speaker 1: That's exactly what you do. But it takes your level
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  Speaker 1: of expertise to do it, to do it well.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Anything more to be said? I don't think so. All right.
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  Speaker 5: How about it's a great place to go and spend
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  Speaker 5: a day?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it is. Except when you wait an hour and
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  Speaker 1: a half or two hours to get into a ride.
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  Speaker 1: That's tough.
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  Speaker 4: They have made it easier. Their food keeps getting better, too.
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  Speaker 2: I had a dish that I had not had before
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  Speaker 2: that's fairly new, and it was excellent.
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  Speaker 1: The food was very rudimentary.
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  Speaker 2: It's not anymore.
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  Speaker 1: You would have hamburgers, and you'd have fries, hamburgers, and
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  Speaker 1: a drink. It was hot dogs and popcorn, I think. Yeah, basically,
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  Speaker 1: that's what you had. And then they added churros, which
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  Speaker 1: to me was magic. And then the best corndogs on
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  Speaker 1: the planet.
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  Speaker 2: Those corndogs.
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  Speaker 1: The churros were insane. So anyway. All right. So much
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  Speaker 1: for that. Just talking about prices.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go to Disneyland.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Come on.
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  Speaker 5: I think I'm going to go tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: Of course you are.
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  Speaker 2: I think I'm going to go right now.
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  Speaker 1: And that's the other thing. Oh, the cost of your
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  Speaker 1: annual passes have gone through the roof. They've gone up
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  Speaker 1: and you get less for the annual passes because, again,
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  Speaker 1: the demand is so high.
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  Speaker 4: People do go. If you go 10 times a year,
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  Speaker 4: you're good. Yeah, if you buy a pass and you
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  Speaker 4: go 10 times a year, it's a bargain.
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  Speaker 1: I get that. Okay. Now, how many people buy passes
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  Speaker 1: and go that often? It takes– Over a million? Yeah. Well,
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  Speaker 1: there you go. It takes an Amy and it takes
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  Speaker 1: a Neil who live and die by Disneyland that want
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  Speaker 1: to be buried in a Peter Pan coffin. I get that.
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  Speaker 5: Wouldn't that be fun to be buried at the Haunted Mansion?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. People spray us the other thing. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if you've read about Disneyland very much, but people
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  Speaker 1: come because they're so fanatic about Disney– is that people
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  Speaker 1: come and get their ashes buried at Disney.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. You're not supposed to do that.
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  Speaker 1: I know that. You're not supposed to do that. They
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  Speaker 1: have a code for it, too. You can hear that.
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  Speaker 2: I can't remember what it was, but they'll call the
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  Speaker 2: code over, code whatever, if somebody spreads ashes. I want
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  Speaker 2: to be taxidermied and then be the hatbox ghost.
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  Speaker 1: There you go. Okay, guys. Let's do it. Start Handle
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  Speaker 1: on the News with Amy, Neil, and me. Lead story. Well,
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  Speaker 1: Israel closed the West Bank after the Israeli army killed
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  Speaker 1: two Palestinians that it says were about to attack a
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  Speaker 1: terrorist attack of some kind. And what ends up happening
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  Speaker 1: is that a lot of people in the West Bank,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the economy is based in very much part
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  Speaker 1: as Palestinian workers go into Israel and work. And when
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  Speaker 1: they shut down the borders, they can't. And then all
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  Speaker 1: goods and services going back into into the West Bank
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  Speaker 1: from Israel and the other way around is are stopped.
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  Speaker 1: And this is what Israel tends to do. And unfortunately, well,
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  Speaker 1: it's just the whole thing is a cluster truck. OK,
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  Speaker 1: moving on.
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  Speaker 5: Not all I.D. is a OK. In a win for
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  Speaker 5: the Republicans, the Supreme Court says student I.D. 's can't
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  Speaker 5: be used in New Hampshire anymore. four midterm elections. The
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  Speaker 5: justices granted an emergency request filed by the state, which
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  Speaker 5: had the backing of the RNC. And of course, in
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  Speaker 5: New Hampshire is the closely watched Senate race between former
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  Speaker 5: Senator John Sununu and Democratic Representative Chris Pappas.
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  Speaker 1: The underlying legal premise here was not touched. What it
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  Speaker 1: was was, can student IDs be used? And what the
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  Speaker 1: judge said that we're upholding the administration, which argues it
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  Speaker 1: is too close to the election to call. And so
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to change it right now is what
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  Speaker 1: the judge said, which is very interesting because court cases
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  Speaker 1: filed the DOG go the other way where it's convenient.
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  Speaker 1: So a lot of the time, it's not the basic
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  Speaker 1: fundamental underlying premise. It's the Supreme Court.
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  Speaker 2: Strikes looking at civilian targets, looking at economic targets. So
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  Speaker 2: says Iran. They've threatened these strikes on U.S. bases, warships,
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  Speaker 2: civilian targets, neighboring Gulf countries. If the U.S. and Israel
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  Speaker 2: resume attacks, of course, the U.S. is moving some troops forward.
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  Speaker 2: off regional bases and ordered non-emergency government employees and diplomat families,
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  Speaker 2: as we talked about yesterday, to leave Saudi Arabia. And
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  Speaker 2: that's where we're at.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: The initial statement from the administration, we won the war
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  Speaker 1: day one. Not quite. We decimated the entire ability for
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  Speaker 1: Iran to defend. to have any military might. Not quite.
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  Speaker 1: The Navy of Iran has been wiped out. Yes, it has.
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  Speaker 1: The problem is the analysts are now saying that Iran
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  Speaker 1: has hundreds, if not thousands of ballistic missiles and drones.
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  Speaker 1: And can do some real, real damage. And Iran is
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  Speaker 1: threatening exactly that. Not just bases and not just facilities
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  Speaker 1: and areas where U.S. forces are, but infrastructure of neighboring countries,
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  Speaker 1: oil infrastructure. And so the president said, after the election,
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  Speaker 1: I will attack. Or I will consider attacking. Why not now?
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  Speaker 1: Because I think the premise is you vote Republicans in
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  Speaker 1: and everything will be fine after the election. If you
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  Speaker 1: don't want vote Republicans in, it's all going to go
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  Speaker 1: to hell in a handbasket. I still don't get why
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  Speaker 1: he wants to wait till after the elections to do anything.
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  Speaker 2: Well, he has to know how much money he has left.
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  Speaker 2: left because he's going to pay us all $ 5, 000. That's true.
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  Speaker 1: That's true. No, only if that's true. If it works
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  Speaker 1: out after the election, the government is going to go
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  Speaker 1: $ 1. 3 trillion more into debt.
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  Speaker 2: Then we'll know how much we can spend on war.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true. All right. Let's take a break.
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  Speaker 2: Silly goose.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Thank you. We'll come back. More Handel on the news.
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  Speaker 3: You're listening to Bill Handel on demand from KFI AM 640.
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  Speaker 1: More handle on the news, Amy, Neil, and me.
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  Speaker 5: This golden arch may have to fall. Actually, it's not
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  Speaker 5: even up yet. The Trump administration wants to put up
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  Speaker 5: the triumphal arch near Arlington National Cemetery. It could happen
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  Speaker 5: as soon as two weeks from yesterday, but opponents of
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  Speaker 5: the project are urging a federal judge to issue an
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  Speaker 5: order that would block construction unless it gets authorized by lawmakers.
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  Speaker 5: The request for a preliminary injunction... comes a day after
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  Speaker 5: the Justice Department filed notice that construction could start as
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  Speaker 5: soon as November 5th.
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  Speaker 1: Now, diving a little bit deeper into this, it has
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  Speaker 1: to be okayed by the National Capital Planning Commission, which
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  Speaker 1: looks like it has been. That organization, I think, comprises
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  Speaker 1: 12 or 13 people, of which the president only chooses three.
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  Speaker 1: Local government, Washington, D.C., chooses a couple and then you
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  Speaker 1: have some federal agencies, et cetera. So the president doesn't
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  Speaker 1: control it automatically. But they've already said yes. And the
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  Speaker 1: argument is going to be and this is where the
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  Speaker 1: president is not just I woke up one morning and
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  Speaker 1: here's what I'm going to do. much like the big,
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  Speaker 1: beautiful ballroom. They've moved a little bit away from that
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  Speaker 1: and want to have some basis. Administration wants to have
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  Speaker 1: some legal basis. And here's what they're relying on. There
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  Speaker 1: was a bill signed in 1925 by Calvin Coolidge, which
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  Speaker 1: built that bridge between Arlington and I think Arlington and
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  Speaker 1: leading to the leading from the Lincoln Memorial, if I'm
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  Speaker 1: not mistaken. And that bridge plan called for columns, which
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  Speaker 1: were not built. So what the administration is saying, the
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  Speaker 1: fact that it calls for columns allows us to build
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  Speaker 1: this arch. 250 feet tall with that big, huge golden
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  Speaker 1: eagle on top. And let me tell you something. As
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  Speaker 1: soon as I see that this is Nazi Germany, this
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  Speaker 1: is the kind of stuff that Germany did. Eagles on
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  Speaker 1: top of everything, these massive demonstrations, it's scary stuff. And
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  Speaker 1: the veterans who are suing also are saying, we don't,
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  Speaker 1: we want an injunction because we don't want it all
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  Speaker 1: of a sudden to be built. And then they come
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  Speaker 1: back in and go, oh, we're too far into it.
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  Speaker 1: Much like the big, beautiful ballroom was. You delay, delay, delay.
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  Speaker 1: And by the time a judge makes the order, the
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  Speaker 1: argument then says, oh, we're way past this. So there's
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  Speaker 1: no reason to delay it. God, I hope we don't
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  Speaker 1: get that arch. That is so it's it's based on
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  Speaker 1: the arc to triumph, except it's more archie and more triumphal, bigger, better.
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  Speaker 1: It's a big, beautiful arch. All right.
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  Speaker 2: Comcast is going to be cutting some jobs, man. And
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  Speaker 2: this is big time. So the company lost about one
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  Speaker 2: hundred and forty four thousand domestic residential broadband customers in
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  Speaker 2: the third quarter last And it continues to grow for them,
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  Speaker 2: and they're looking to make that up. It doesn't look
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  Speaker 2: like they're going to cut any employees at NBCUniversal at
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  Speaker 2: this particular point, but they expect to take a– A
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  Speaker 2: charge of more than $ 1 billion in the fourth quarter. So,
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  Speaker 2: you're taking it in the shorts.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Now, of course, we get corporate speak on this one.
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  Speaker 1: Getting rid of what? How many thousands of jobs that
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  Speaker 1: we're talking about?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, you're looking at, you know, if they're trying to
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  Speaker 2: make up for that and they're getting 144,000 domestic residential
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  Speaker 2: broadband loss in customers.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know exactly how many jobs are lost, but
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  Speaker 1: it's not as a result of business not coming in.
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  Speaker 2: So they say.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 1: The CFO says, we don't look at it as a
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  Speaker 1: cost-cutting measure. What we do is look at it as
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  Speaker 1: our ability to simplify in order to move faster, to
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  Speaker 1: be more nimble, and it really creates– They call it
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  Speaker 1: their transformation. Yes. Transformation efforts. Transformational to make us better
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  Speaker 1: by cutting– that's the same argument that was used by
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  Speaker 1: Big Pharma when the limitation to drugs. Remember that both
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  Speaker 1: President Trump and President Biden– are saying certain drugs are
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  Speaker 1: going to be cheaper and big pharma fought against it,
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  Speaker 1: saying that cost cutting people paying less for drugs is
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  Speaker 1: bad for science and is bad for those people. The
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  Speaker 1: less you pay for drugs. the worse off you are.
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  Speaker 1: They literally said that.
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  Speaker 2: You could make an argument, I guess, that there will
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  Speaker 2: be less studies done.
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  Speaker 1: That's true, and that's exactly what they said. There'll be
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  Speaker 1: less R & D.
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  Speaker 4: Because they want to be paid back for their research
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  Speaker 4: and development.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and then the argument, and we can go on
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  Speaker 1: to it, the argument is why are the only people,
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  Speaker 1: why are the U.S. consumers paying all the money where
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  Speaker 1: you go to Canada and it's a third as much? Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I think we have time for one more before we bail.
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  Speaker 5: The not-so-friendly skies over L.A. Four flight attendants were injured.
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  Speaker 5: Dozens of passengers were shaken up, but they're okay. A
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  Speaker 5: United flight was on its way to LAX and was
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  Speaker 5: on approach when it hit some really heavy turbulence. It
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  Speaker 5: was on its way back from Hawaii. And the passengers
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  Speaker 5: were all strapped in because they were getting ready to land.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 5: Apparently, the flight attendants were not.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly. And so flight attendants, their heads hit the ceiling
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  Speaker 1: and then were injured. Now, I have always wondered why
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: in midair, knowing that there is clear air turbulence up
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: there where the planes can really get shook up and
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: drop hundreds of feet. Why it is not mandatory for
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: seatbelts to be used. When you're sitting down, you must
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: have seatbelts. I don't know why that is not the case.
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: I've never understood that. Because look what happens. You know,
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: the only reason passengers weren't heard is because every single
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: one of them had their seatbelts on. Okay, now we'll
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: take a break and come back. And plenty more handle
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: on the news coming right up.
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  Speaker 3: You're listening to Bill Handel on demand from KFI AM 640.
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  Speaker 2: Tornado, man, you don't hear that very often, especially in
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: San Clemente. People are saying it scared the living you
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: know what out of them. A lot of stuff going
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: on there in the area. You have, you know, Norte fire.
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: You've got coastal erosion, El Nino related fires. Pacific storms
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: in San Clemente may have faced damage from yet another
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: climate fueled emergency, a tornado. So they keep saying the
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: possible twister, I guess, measuring and the winds and everything else.
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: A San Clemente golf course there on Wednesday was hit,
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: toppling and snapping. off sections of trees a bunch of
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: uh you know tree parts all across the typically manicured
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: park there And it doesn't appear anyone was injured, which
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: is good news. But they may have had a tour
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: in NATO.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, I have a question. Now, I watch national news
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: in addition to watching CNN, et cetera. And I don't
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: know if you guys do. My go-to is ABC News
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: because I really– I think David Muir is a real hottie.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: I'm always– No, take it where you can get it.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: No, I watch it. Every time I see it go on,
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: see the news go on, I get wood. I mean
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: I have to admit that. Now, have you seen a story,
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: which I have not, where a weather story is not included?
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: I have not. For months, I have not seen an
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: afternoon or an evening broadcast where a weather story is
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: not there. And now we're in the middle of a
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: nor'easter as what's going on, and then heat waves, and
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: then it's crazy. Okay, moving on.
• 20:52
  Speaker 5: Moving on.
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: You know what?
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: This one reminds me of Princess Bride. Well, it just
• 20:56
  Speaker 5: so happens that your friend here is only mostly dead.
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead.
• 21:03
  Speaker 5: Okay, so Mom found her toddler alive in a hospital
• 21:07
  Speaker 5: morgue back in February. This would happen in Arizona. She
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: said that— More than five hours after he was pronounced dead,
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: she thought she heard him breathing when she hugged him goodbye.
• 21:19
  Speaker 5: But instead of listening to her gut, Alexis Fiorilino said
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: she believed the doctor who told her that those were
• 21:26
  Speaker 5: just kind of last gasps and he wasn't really alive.
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: And then they found out after he was pronounced dead, 620,
• 21:32
  Speaker 5: on Super Bowl Sunday. Yeah. Five hours later.
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: It's incredible. That's a story. Can you imagine the relief?
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: It's a weird story, too.
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: I think that the child had believed to have drowned
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: while the parents were smoking pot.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. All of them. They were charged originally with
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: child endangerment, but I think they dropped those charges. Right.
• 21:51
  Speaker 5: Well, they were sitting there being questioned by police when
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: a detective bursts in and says, oh, wait, the kid's alive.
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: I'd punch that doctor in the face.
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: No kidding. And ironically enough, in the background, they're playing
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: Young Frankenstein with Gene Wilder screaming, he's alive, he's alive. Okay.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: It's a good story. It's a good, the kid survives.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: It's a good story. So if I make fun of
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: a good story, it's not a dead baby story, which
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: I get into a lot of trouble making fun of.
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: OK, well, back to the attacks in the Middle East.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: Seven oil tankers caught fire or were damaged in the
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: Strait of Hormuz overnight. And they were hit, of course,
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: by Iran or striking naval mines out in that area.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: So a number of tensions continue to rise over their
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: close election in Israel, in which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: could lose power.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's coming up Tuesday, that election. We're going to
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: be watching that, too, because that has a great deal
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: of influence of what's going on in the Mideast. in
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: the Middle East. Now, I have a question about the
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: Strait of Hormuz. Isn't this the same strait that the U.S.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: controls and there is a full transit of oil tankers
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: and container ships going through it and everything is copacetic?
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: Is that the same strait that I've been hearing that
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: or is it a different strait in which it's actually
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: closed and tankers are not going through and even if
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: they were allowed to go through, The insurance is so
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: prohibitive that tankers cannot go through. And the ones that
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: are being allowed to go through are being charged a
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: toll by Iran. Which of those straight of Hormuzes are
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: we talking about?
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: It gets confusing because is this the same straight where
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: the Olympic kayaker pulled up a piece of the blue?
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: I get them confused and they're building an arch over it.
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: Is this the one? It's going to put Trump's name
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: on the straight.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: Oh, the other one is, and I don't know if
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: he was kidding or not. Maybe he was because now
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: these days you can't tell. And that is changing the
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: name of New Mexico to New America. That story disappeared
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: pretty quickly. So I'm assuming that was a joke. I
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: can't tell. Where he's making fun of his own, which
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: is kind of neat because usually he doesn't make fun
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: of himself or make fun of his actions.
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: Maybe he does it to see if anybody blinks. And
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: if they don't blink, he goes, go ahead and do it. Now,
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: Lake Ontario changing. And the Gulf of Mexico changing to
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: Gulf of America, that was legitimate. And that was real,
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: that he really moved that.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: New Mexico to New America, I don't know. I don't know.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: It could be tongue in cheek. All right. Coming back,
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: we'll finish up Handel on the news.
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: You're listening to Bill Handel On Demand from KFI AM640.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: Back we go. More Handle on the News. We'll finish
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: it up, actually. Amy, Neil, and me.
• 24:58
  Speaker 5: Destroying history.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 25:03
  Speaker 5: So there are these two floor globes at the Pentagon
• 25:07
  Speaker 5: used by General Dwight D. Eisenhower during World War II.
• 25:12
  Speaker 5: And War Secretary Pete Hegseth thought, those are cool.
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: I want one.
• 25:17
  Speaker 5: So his staff requested that the secretary's office become the
• 25:21
  Speaker 5: new home to one of the two 30-inch globes. And
• 25:24
  Speaker 5: normally you'd have curators move this kind of thing, but
• 25:27
  Speaker 5: Hegseth said, nah, just go get it. So he sent
• 25:30
  Speaker 5: his own team down to get the Eisenhower globe. They
• 25:33
  Speaker 5: lost control of it and dropped it, crashed into its
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: base and impaled the fragile shell near Antarctica.
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Oops.
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: Oh, man.
• 25:45
  Speaker 5: This is like in Hollywood. Only union people can mess
• 25:48
  Speaker 5: with the microphones and the lights.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: Don't mess it up. It is a historic museum piece
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: is what it is. It's been described as basically priceless.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: There's two of them. And the defense secretary has the
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: right to move into his office. I mean, there is
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: no issue. The only issue is, did he follow what
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: should have been followed protocol? And that is the curators
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: to make sure that doesn't happen. Reminds me of Steve Wynn.
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: In one of his, Steve Wynn, who is the hotel magnate,
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: of course, was blind. And he had this incredible collection,
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: art collection in, I think it was at the Mirage.
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: And he was there one day and his elbow went
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: through one of these priceless paintings.
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: Oh, no.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. Is he really blind?
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry?
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: Is he really blind? Yeah, he is. Then why is
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: he buying art?
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: Because he buys art.
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: How does he know if it's good?
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: That's a good point because he ended up spending three
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: and a half million dollars for stick figures at one point. Yeah,
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: just say this is a Picasso. Wow. All right.
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: Storm dumping. It's dumping a video from Mammoth Mountain there.
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: The resort there shows that fresh powder covering the ground
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: on Thursday morning. That's a good thing. Opening day at
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: Mammoth is set for November 13th this year. And that's good.
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: But here in Southern California, we have a little bit
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: of snow falling on Big Bear, but nothing major just yet.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm wondering, since I don't ski, do these ski resorts,
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: when they're at an opening date, in this case, November 13th,
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: what if there's a pile of snow that comes in
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: this week that makes it completely viable to open up
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: the ski resorts?
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: Oh, they'd open up earlier.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: Do they do that?
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: I would imagine, because ultimately, that's money, right? Yeah, big money.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: I know. I'm just curious if that's what they do.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: Or the people that are working there are set to
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: go and it's a big deal. It's a big startup
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: kind of thing. Oh, here's the story. Here's the story
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: that's depressing.
• 27:56
  Speaker 5: What's more important, food or television? A new survey by
• 28:00
  Speaker 5: Consumer Reports says 20% of people, one in five Americans, say...
• 28:05
  Speaker 5: They have cut back on their grocery shopping or are
• 28:08
  Speaker 5: looking for less expensive food options to offset the soaring
• 28:12
  Speaker 5: costs of electricity bills.
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: That's horrible.
• 28:15
  Speaker 5: 25% say they would rather be cold this winter than
• 28:18
  Speaker 5: go hungry. So they're going to, you know, spend more
• 28:21
  Speaker 5: on the money and forget about whether their electric.
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: Bills are high. You can put a sweater on or
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: a jacket. It's hard to manufacture or get food when
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: you can't afford food. Wait a second.
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: Gas for heat is.
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: It's not electricity.
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: Natural gas. And that has not gone up.
• 28:38
  Speaker 5: Yeah, but they're going back to electric heat in a
• 28:39
  Speaker 5: lot of places.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and then that really hits. That's right. Heat pumps
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: are all electric. They're far more efficient, but it's electricity
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: that runs them. And natural gas has always been way,
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: way cheaper than electricity. So, you know, it's tough. Americans
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: are having it very, very tough. And that is really
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: going to affect the election. You know, you have Republicans
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: all day long. They can say, look what we're doing
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: with Iran. We're stopping them from having a nuclear weapon.
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: Look what we're doing with illegal aliens. OK, great. In
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: the meantime, how about the cost of chicken? How about
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: the cost of gasoline? And I think that is Republicans
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: can't argue, cannot argue on that one. They cannot say
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: it is cheaper, it is better, we've done a better
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: job with the economy. That just doesn't work. Okay, I
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: think we have time for at least one more.
• 29:28
  Speaker 5: Can we do one more and skip to the end?
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, of course. Let's just skip to the end anyway.
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, go for it. Okay, how about this?
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: Maverick will get you real when you get to the ship.
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: And if you don't, give me a call. I'll fly
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: with you.
• 29:44
  Speaker 5: Actor Tom Skerritt has died. Best known for, of course,
• 29:48
  Speaker 5: his role in Top Gun. He was Viper. He was
• 29:51
  Speaker 5: also critically acclaimed for his role in Picket Fences, the
• 29:54
  Speaker 5: TV show, earned two Emmy nominations, and also starred in
• 29:57
  Speaker 5: Alien and tons of other things. Tom Skerritt was 93.
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, life well lived. And his breakout role, and I
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: remember he was wonderful, was in MASH, the movie. Yeah.
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: The original movie of which the TV show went, you know,
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: and was created after that. You know, one of the
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: stats about MASH is the last episode of MASH was
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: seen by more than 100 million people. It was, how
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: is that for crazy? Only the Super Bowl has been
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: able to beat that. I mean, can you imagine? And
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: that's when the population of the United States was not
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: 380 million either.
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: Insane. Yeah, great actor. And I can't believe he's 93
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: or was.
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: Was 93.
• 30:40
  Speaker 4: You know what?
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: You feel good about someone lasting into their 90s. Sure.
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: Had a wonderful life. You go, okay, that's a life
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: well lived. It's when they're 60s or 50s or 70s
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: when they die. That's when you go.
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: 70s sounds so young to pass nowadays. And my dad
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: was 73 when he died.
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah. 25 years ago. Yeah. The last 25 years, you know,
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: 70 is the new 30 or 30 is a new 70.
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: Keep telling yourself that, Bob.
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: Thank you. I wake up every morning and go, hey, OK,
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: we're done with that.
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: Coming up, Iran threatening wider strikes. It's it's ramping up.
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: We'll talk about that coming right up. In the meantime,
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: this is KFI AM 640. You've been listening to The
• 31:26
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• 31:29
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